Originally Posted by YendorLootmonkey
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Except you forget I DID put the time and effort in. Years ago. I did some "poopmittening" (camping out for and tracking mobs nearing the end of window, not poopsocking the entire window.) I did the FTE races pulling Talendor, Gorenaire, and Sev.
It was all stupid and required me to be chained to a computer pressing track for hours at a time, understand all sorts of raid rules, sign up for a batphone, jump on at 4am on a weekend (wasn't going to answer batphones on a work night... that's where I drew the line) to help Vesica Dei or, later BDA, kill a raid mob.
Then some asshole troll who had access to our forums posted a RL pic of my guildleader for the RNF sociopaths to make fun of here, chasing her and the core of my guild off to another server to get away from the toxicity.
Those who were left mostly merged with BDA. So I did the raid shit with them for a while, but wasn't about to poopsock all of Velious so I quit. Came back, retired from raiding altogther, and just spending my time helping new players level and gear up.
I haven't the heart to tell them that certain groups of these people who have made this game an unhealthy obsession will never let them see certain content unless they join an uber guild and "put in the correct level of time/effort" mandated by server bullies who are dead set against them seeing any raid loot, who will go through legendary efforts to make sure they don't get any raid loot, and will actively rub it in their faces on the forums like a bunch of entitled asshole elitists.
So no, I have no need to join TAKP. My home, or whatever is left of it after toxic sociopaths chased the majority of my friends in two guilds away, is right here. I am done raiding, I am no threat to anyone's precious loot. Like I said, I know my place on the totem pole around here.
What pisses me off is that my place was decided for me by other players who somehow deemed themselves the arbiters of who deserves what, not by game mechanics or developers.
But hey, if it makes everyone feel better to call this competition "classic" every time there's an assault on the status quo, despite this level of competition was artificially created by having no progression beyond Velious and allowing players to gear their characters for 6+ years of Kunark, then so be it.
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03-26-2019, 06:30 PM
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